I O Ranch Processing, LLC

07/12/2026

Chicken Thigh Schnitzel. Butterflied skin on thigh, hammered thin, with a dill/caper gravy, garnished with fried sage leaves and capers. All fried in beef tallow.

07/09/2026

📢 Join Texas New World screwworm response efforts by becoming part of the TAHC team!

TAHC is hiring across Texas to help strengthen prevention, preparedness, and response efforts statewide. If you're ready to make an impact, explore our open opportunities and apply today.

www.tahc.texas.gov/employment/

07/09/2026

Open up a beef processing plant, they said. It'll be fun, they said. 😂 Having your whole business depending on refrigeration is not always fun. It does help that we try keep an inventory of replacement parts for all refrigeration and machines in the plant.

07/08/2026

Since we have customers from all over the state, and we are getting a few questions about bringing animals from counties with NW Screwworm quarantines, I wanted to post the link to this TAHC interactive map. Just enter the address or location of the animal(s) in question. If you are in any color other than yellow, you have no restrictions. If you are in a yellow area, you must have an inspector come and inspect your animal and give you a permit before you ship. You can either contact TAHC, or call Ryan, and he can give you the phone number for our local TAHC inspector.

According to the Executive Director Order issued on June 3, 2026, all warm-blooded animals in this zone may not move out of the zone without prior authorization from the Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC).

07/07/2026

Pens are full.....time to get to work.

07/04/2026

07/04/2026

Happy FOURTH OF JULY!!!

Below is a list of everyone that signed the Declaration Of Independence, and their age at the time. Today we gave thanks to these brave men and their families. Still amazes me what these men accomplished.

26: Edward Rutledge (SC), Thomas Lynch Jr. (SC)
30: Thomas Heyward Jr. (SC), Benjamin Rush (PA)
32: Elbridge Gerry (MA)
33: Thomas Jefferson (VA), Thomas Stone (MD), James Wilson (PA)
34: William Hooper (NC), Arthur Middleton (SC)
35: Samuel Chase (MD), William Paca (MD), George Walton (GA)
36: John Penn (NC)
37: George Clymer (PA), Thomas Nelson Jr. (VA)
38: Charles Carroll of Carrollton (MD), Francis Hopkinson (NJ)
39: Carter Braxton (VA)
40: John Adams (MA), John Hancock (MA)
41: William Floyd (NY), Button Gwinnett (GA), Francis Lightfoot Lee (VA)
42: Thomas McKean (DE), Robert Morris (PA), George Read (DE)
44: Richard Henry Lee (VA)
45: Samuel Huntington (CT), Robert Treat Paine (MA), Richard Stockton (NJ), William Williams (CT)
46: Josiah Bartlett (NH), Joseph Hewes (NC), George Ross (PA), William Whipple (NH)
47: Caesar Rodney (DE)
48: William Ellery (RI)
49: Oliver Wolcott (CT)
50: Abraham Clark (NJ), Benjamin Harrison (VA), Lewis Morris (NY), George Wythe (VA)
52: Lyman Hall (GA), John Morton (PA)
53: Samuel Adams (MA), John Witherspoon (NJ)
55: Roger Sherman (CT)
57: James Smith (PA)
60: Philip Livingston (NY), George Taylor (PA)
62: Matthew Thornton (NH)
63: Francis Lewis (NY)
65: John Hart (NJ)
69: Stephen Hopkins (RI)
70: Benjamin Franklin (PA)

05/25/2026

Today we honor, and give thanks, to those that have given the ultimate sacrifice for our country, our freedom, and our safety. Please also keep their families and friends in your thoughts and prayers.

05/25/2026

Had a friend go hog hunt the other night. Got 14 and saw 100. With the drought well behind us, we now have more hogs than ever on the I O. We also have more turkeys, cotton tails, Jack rabbits, field mice, foxes, etc. Everything is flourishing. Even our big steers on pasture have been out gaining our steers in the feedlot. Oh, more flies, too. 😊

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